Editing Cheminformatics (section)

== History ==
Cheminformatics has been an active field in various guises since the 1970s and earlier, with activity in academic departments and commercial pharmaceutical research and development departments.<ref>{{cite book|author = Martin, Yvonne Connolly | author-link = Yvonne Connolly Martin | date=1978| title=Quantitative Drug Design: A Critical Introduction|series = Medicinal Research series | volume = 8 | location=New York, NY | publisher= [[Marcel Dekker]] |isbn = 9780824765743 | edition = 1st }}</ref>{{page needed|date=February 2020}}{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} The term chemoinformatics was defined in its application to drug discovery by F.K. Brown in 1998:<ref name="Brown_1998">{{Cite book | author = F.K. Brown | chapter = Ch. 35. Chemoinformatics: What is it and How does it Impact Drug Discovery | title = Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry | year = 1998 | volume = 33 | pages = 375–384 | doi = 10.1016/S0065-7743(08)61100-8 | isbn = 9780120405336}};{{page needed|date=February 2020}} see also {{cite journal | author = Brown, Frank | title = Chemoinformatics–A Ten Year Update | format =  | journal = [[Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development]]| year = 2005 | volume = 8 | issue = 3 | pages = 296–302}}</ref><blockquote>Chemoinformatics is the mixing of those information resources to transform data into information and information into knowledge for the intended purpose of making better decisions faster in the area of drug lead identification and optimization.</blockquote> Since then, both terms, cheminformatics and chemoinformatics, have been used,{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} although, [[lexicography|lexicographically]], cheminformatics appears to be more frequently used,{{when|date=February 2020}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.molinspiration.com/chemoinformatics.html|title=Cheminformatics or Chemoinformatics ?|access-date=2006-03-31|archive-date=2017-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621112022/http://www.molinspiration.com/chemoinformatics.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.genomicglossaries.com/content/glossary_faq.asp#3|title = Biopharmaceutical glossary Tips & FAQs}}</ref> despite academics in Europe declaring for the variant chemoinformatics in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Obernai Declaration |url=https://infochim.u-strasbg.fr/chemoinformatics/Obernai%20Declaration.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192029/http://infochim.u-strasbg.fr/chemoinformatics/Obernai%20Declaration.pdf |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |website=Chéminformatique Strasbourg}}</ref> In 2009, a prominent Springer journal in the field was founded by transatlantic executive editors named the [[Journal of Cheminformatics]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Willighagen |first=Egon |title=Open Access Journal of Cheminformatics now live! « SteinBlog |url=http://www.steinbeck-molecular.de/steinblog/index.php/2009/03/17/open-access-journal-of-cheminformatics-now-live/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |language=en-US}}</ref>